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Author Lucey, Michael, 1960-

Title Gide's bent : sexuality, politics, writing / Michael Lucey
Published New York : Oxford University Press, 1995

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Description 1 online resource (vi, 238 pages) : illustrations
Series Ideologies of desire
Ideologies of desire.
Contents Note on Translation; Introduction; 1. Watching Sex in Si le grain ne meurl; 2. The Place of the Oedipal: Writing Home from North Africa; 3. Corydon and L'Ecole des femmes: Mimesis, the Mantis, the Gynaeceum; 4. Without Delay: Les Faux-Monnayeurs, Lacan, and the Onset of Sexuality; 5. Gribouille en Afrique: Gide's Voyage au Congo; 6. Sexuality, Politics and Culture: Gide's Trip to the Soviet Union; Epilogue: Queer Tears; Works Cited; Index
Summary This study investigates the place of sexuality in the writings of Andre Gide. Focusing on his work in the 1920s and 1930s, the years in which Gide wrote most openly about his homosexuality, the text shows how Gide's sexuality reflected his political interests
Analysis French fiction
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 223-230) and index
Notes Print version record
Subject Gide, André, 1869-1951 -- Political and social views
SUBJECT Gide, André, 1869-1951 fast
Subject Homosexuality and literature -- France -- History -- 20th century
Politics and literature -- France -- History -- 20th century
Literature and society -- France -- History -- 20th century
Gay men in literature.
Utopias in literature.
Sex in literature.
utopian literature.
LITERARY CRITICISM -- European -- French.
Gay men in literature
Homosexuality and literature
Literature and society
Political and social views
Politics and literature
Sex in literature
Utopias in literature
Schrijvers.
Frans.
Homoseksualiteit.
Politiek.
France
Genre/Form History
Form Electronic book
LC no. 94023094
ISBN 9780195359749
0195359747
9780195080872
0195080874
9786610654857
6610654859
9786610534791
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